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Difference between sudo -s and sudo su in mac os

Both sudo -s and sudo su makes user root. is there any some difference?

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with sudo su

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Solution

  • From man sudo:

     -s, --shell
             Run the shell specified by the SHELL environment variable if it is set or the shell specified by the invoking user's password
             database entry.  If a command is specified, it is passed to the shell for execution via the shell's -c option.  If no command is
             specified, an interactive shell is executed.

    So -s keeps your current shell (bash in this case), while omitting it uses the shell of the root user (sh). Myself, I prefer sudo -Es to keep both my shell and environment variables.